House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Congressman John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, said in a press conference at 2:00 that they were not aware of Congressman Foley\u2019s explicit Instant Messages until this news report surfaced last week.<\/p>\n
Except it wasn\u2019t really a press conference because they took no questions. Didn\u2019t look good.<\/p>\n
There are still a lot of holes in this story. ABC News reported yesterday<\/a> that \u201cFoley\u2019s obsession has been known to Republicans for 5 years\u201d and quoted an ex-page who said that \u201cwarnings were issued\u2026Pages were told to watch out for Foley.\u201d By using the Those were probably some of the questions reporters didn\u2019t get to ask this afternoon as Hastert and Shimkus walked out on reporters.<\/p>\n Update: With Gonzales heading this investigation don\u2019t expect anything before the elections. They\u2019re already dragging their feet<\/a>.<\/p>\n [Justice Dept. o]fficials were still trying to decide whether the Washington or Miami offices of the FBI would head the inquiry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How lame an excuse is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Congressman John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, said in a press conference at 2:00 that they were not aware of Congressman Foley\u2019s explicit Instant Messages until this news report surfaced last week. Except it wasn\u2019t really a press conference because they took no questions. Didn\u2019t look good. There are still a lot of… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}past<\/del> passive tense, the reporter suggests he doesn\u2019t know the full details. Who knew it for five years? Who issued the warnings? <\/p>\n